Sentence examples for supreme command of from inspiring English sources

At that time the whole of the conquered Polish territories was under the administrative supreme command of a military commander, General Von Rundstedt.

Abu Ubaidah, in a council of war, transferred the supreme command of the Muslim forces to Khalid, who acted as a field commander in the battle and was the mastermind of the annihilation of the Byzantine army.

Umar's first move was to relieve Khalid from supreme command of Muslim Forces and appoint Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah as the new commander in chief of the Islamic army.

Garibaldi expected to be offered supreme command of all armed forces.

"This," he comments, "was how the supreme command of the war operated".

I guess this speaks to Mr. Adams's supreme command of his medium.

But since they could only be used if the lone marines piloting them could stay awake for days at a time, Dr Gerhard Orzechowski, the head pharmacologist of the naval supreme command on the Baltic, had no choice but to begin working on the development of a new super-medication – a cocaine chewing gum that would be the hardest drug German soldiers had ever taken.

It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the land and naval forces... while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war". The Founders recognized that the president might have to respond to attack, and therefore chose "declare" over "make". However, this was a very limited grant of authority.

In the Federalist Papers No. 69 Hamilton explained that under the Constitution the president's powers as commander-in-chief "would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military," while the power to make war and to raise an army are reserved to Congress.

It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first General and admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the DECLARING of war and to the RAISING and REGULATING of fleets and armies, all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature".

Konoe's first cabinet had been plagued by the separation of state affairs and the army's right of supreme command.